Ghana News Agency

Monday 30th May, 2016

Accra,
May 30, GNA - Dr Kodjoe Sumney, the President of Mission Africa Incorporated,
has proposed that the winners in this year’s presidential and parliamentary
elections be anointed and consecrated before they take the Oaths of Office to
serve.
Quoting
examples from the Bible of men who were anointed before they began their
official duties, Dr Sumney said leadership was a divine duty, which wo

Accra,
May 30, GNA - Dr Kodjoe Sumney, the President of Mission Africa Incorporated,
has proposed that the winners in this year’s presidential and parliamentary
elections be anointed and consecrated before they take the Oaths of Office to
serve.

Quoting
examples from the Bible of men who were anointed before they began their
official duties, Dr Sumney said leadership was a divine duty, which would only
be successful with the backing of God.

Dr
Sumney, who said God dropped the suggestion in his spirit, was addressing an
event to the climax 13th African Union Day Prayer and Empowerment Conference,
held on May 25, at the Foyer of the Chamber Block of Parliament, in Accra.

The
Prayer Conference, a collaborative effort of Africa Mission Incorporated, the
Parliament of Ghana and the Ghana Broadcasting Corporation, was under the
theme, “Peaceful Elections and Economic Progress.”

Giving
credit to God as the elector of leaders, Dr Sumney said God himself would,
therefore, lead Ghana to elect the President and the Members of Parliament,
come November 7.

The
cleric said God would not disappoint Ghana concerning the choice of leaders.
“Let’s look up to God and he himself in his wisdom will give us a president.

“Let’s
pray that God gives us peaceful elections. We may have small, small noises here
and there, but he himself will give us a leader.”

Dr
Sumney called for humility to control the elections, saying it was time for
spirit filled leadership in Africa.

“It
is time that leaders in all domains -political, managerial, religious and
traditional - become more spirit-filled, become more people-centered,
heavenly-centered, compassion -entered and result-oriented,” he said.

“These
are the kinds of leaders we need in all aspects in Africa, leadership is a
divine calling, no matter one’s religion, and can never be adequately fulfilled
without the anointing and consecration of God."

The
Conference was addressed by a team of renowned speakers, including Nii Okwei
Kinka Dowuona, the Paramount Chief of the Osu Traditional Area, Dr Osei Kofi
Darkwa, the President of the Ghana Telecommunication University, Pastor Dr.
Andrews Ewool (Seventh Day Adventist), the Reverend Steve Mensah (General Overseer
Evangelistic Charismatic Ministry and Dr. Lawrence Tetteh, the Founder of the
United Kingdom-based Word-wide Miracle Outreach.

Later
in an interview with the Ghana News Agency (GNA), Dr Sumney said Africa’s
political forefathers were focused and determined to prepare the way for
political independence for the countries of Africa, regardless of the cost.

However,
he said, “Currently we are not willing to pay the price that they paid for us.

”So
in Mission Africa, we want to create the awareness on the cries of the
suffering of Africans to our leaders to ensure economic independence so that
they can enjoy a piece of the cake of Africa.

“In
the Far East, they have spirit-filled leadership. We all have to be involved,
be committed and consistent in the revival of Africa.”

Dr
Tetteh, also in an interview, urged Ghanaians to increase their roles as peace
ambassadors in this election year, and constitute themselves as a massive
united force to develop the nation.

Dr
Tetteh is an economist, but he said he had visited 118 nations, mostly with the
message of Christ.

In
all situations, he said, the Word of God had been proven to bring peace and
prosperity when diligently applied.

He,
therefore, urged Ghanaians to continue to intensify their prayers ahead of the
elections and thereafter. “We, as a nation, must promote peace and unity for
the coming elections and beyond.”

He
advised the media to be more circumspect in their reportage so that whatever
they published would inure to the peace of the nation.

Some
children, who put up AU-related performances at the prayer Summit, reminded
Ghanaians to preserve the peace to ensure their security to carry on with
nation building.

Mrs
Elizabeth Kwatsoe Tawiah Sackey, the MP for Okaikoi North (NPP), who
participated in the prayer festival, told the GNA that Ghana belonged to God,
hence the need to commit the nation to God to ensure an incident-free election.

Mr
Mathias Kwame Ntow, the MP for Aowin (NDC), said the elections were not about
war, emphasising that the nation needed more prayers for the leadership and
everyone to be at peace.